Sean Grande on Sharing Signature "Got It!" Call with Mike Gorman

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In the latest episode of Celtics Beat, Adam Kaufman and Evan Valenti are joined by Celtics Radio Broadcaster Sean Grande to discuss the future of Celtics TV coverage following this season with Mike Gorman retiring.  In this segment, Sean Grande discusses the "Got It!" tagline that him and Mike Gorman use while calling games.  FULL SHOW: https://youtu.be/AOCmqm8lgbw  This segment of the Celtics Beat Podcast is brought to you by Fanduel Sportsbook, the exclusive wagering partner of the CLNS Media Network. Visit FanDuel.com/BOSTON and start earning BONUS BETS with America’s #1 Sportsbook! Because right now, when you bet on a Super Bowl Winner, you can GET BONUS BETS EVERY TIME THEY WIN IN THE REGULAR SEASON!  21+ and present in MA. First online real money wager only. $10 Deposit req. Refund issued as non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at fanduel.com/sportsbook. Hope is here. GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800)-327-5050 for 24/7 support. Play it smart from the start! GameSenseMA.com or call 1-800-GAM-1234.

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00:00 We were talking before we came on too, and you had mentioned that obviously there are

00:03 some similarities in specific calls.

00:09 People think "Got it."

00:10 They think of Mike.

00:11 They think of you.

00:12 They think... and so you had mentioned that there's been a years-long process of discovery

00:18 to finally find out kind of how that all happened and how you guys overlapped a little bit.

00:23 I remember, this is a conversation of many, many, I don't want to say a thousand pregame

00:28 dinners with Mike, right, like in media rooms around the NBA, but it feels like that after

00:32 all those years.

00:33 Tommy tended to dominate a lot of those conversations, which was awesome.

00:38 But I remember when it first came up, because we both do use it, and what was interesting

00:45 to me was I didn't... because I mentioned Mike only did the games on cable.

00:48 This is going to sound absolutely archaic, but when I was at BU in the early '90s, we

00:54 didn't have cable.

00:55 You didn't have cable to...

00:56 I know, college students didn't have cable TV.

00:59 Oh my God, that's so primitive.

01:00 Yeah, well, there was no Starbucks either, right, when we were in college.

01:03 So there was no cable TV.

01:05 I didn't hear Mike until like mid '90s, like after I'm out of school.

01:11 And I had already been doing basketball games at that point, and it had already been used.

01:15 You know, I don't...

01:16 Not like use it every time, but got it.

01:18 To me, it has consonants.

01:19 I don't want to get too far down this 500 level play-by-play class.

01:23 It has consonants in it, so it's a stronger thing.

01:25 There's always a big debate about, in hockey, you say score or a goal, because it is a goal.

01:33 A goal is actually what's happened.

01:35 I never liked that because shot and a goal is coming down to me.

01:40 The cadence comes down.

01:41 Where you want to say shot, score, and it gets higher and louder.

01:45 You know, it's a different sound to it, and I think it draws people's attention, particularly

01:48 on radio, even though it is a goal.

01:50 So you can have these kind of debates.

01:52 The got it thing was interesting, so I couldn't figure out why was I saying got it when I

01:57 never heard...

01:58 You know, Mike will tell you that he talked to Johnny Most about that when he came up

02:02 with it, or I don't remember Mike's origin story for got it.

02:06 But that Johnny Most told him, "Yeah, you should use that because nobody else does."

02:10 And the funny thing was, I was using it before I heard Mike.

02:13 And I finally...

02:14 I don't know why, I think I was maybe watching his show one day, and it occurred to me as

02:19 a kid, college kid of the early 90s, high school, college kid, you're watching SportsCenter

02:24 all the time.

02:25 The 18...

02:26 Who was the number one guy on SportsCenter, late 80s, early 90s?

02:30 Dan Patrick.

02:32 Dan Patrick, when he would do highlights and would narrate home runs, what'd he say?

02:39 Got it.

02:40 Was it got it?

02:41 It was a got it.

02:42 And it wasn't a big, loud got it.

02:44 It was a down cadence.

02:47 Got it.

02:48 And I'm 99% sure that's where it sunk into my head.

02:52 When he was narrating a highlight, and Fernando Valenzuela on the mound and Tony Gwynn at

02:56 the plate, got it.

03:00 You narrate a highlight to say that as the bat hits the ball.

03:02 It's just sort of the art of doing highlights.

03:06 But I feel with great confidence, as watching Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann every night,

03:12 almost assuredly, this is 30 years ago now or more, where I got that from.

03:19 And two people have both of you's got it have been the Celtics.

03:22 So that's the one thing that will continue, right?

03:24 The Celtics, we know that.

03:25 Is that you'll always have, you'll have got it.

03:27 You'll always have got it.

03:28 That will live on.

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